Poultry-brooder.



H. N. HEILMAN. POULTRY BROODEIL, v APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8, 1908. 920,74Q, Patented May 4, 1909.

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H. N. HEILMAN. POULTRY BROODER.

APPLICATION TILED JUNE 8, 1908 920,740. Patented 4, 1909.

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HENRY N. HEILMAN, or sr. LOUIS, Missouri-I.)

POULTRY-BROODER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application filed June 8, 1908. Serial No. 437,359.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knoim that I, HENRY'N. HEIIiMAN,--

a citizen of the United. States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry- Brooders, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawingsgforming a part hereof.

My invention relates to a poultrybrooder,

my object being to provide a simple, inexl pensive brooder in which is arranged a plurality oi compartments particularly adapted to be occupiedby young poultry'after the same. has been hatched in an incubator, and the floors of the compartments inwhich brooder are made removable in order that they can be readily taken out and cleaned, 01' V renewed; and said brooder being provided with simple heating and ventilating means.

A further ob'ect of n invention is to no vide a hover chamber in which is arranged a series of coin artnients, and each-coinpart lnent being 0 such size as to receive but a hmlted number of ch cks, or other small p'oultry, thereby obviating the danger of smothering said young poultry as, a result 1 off crowding in the hover chamber.

y Tot-he above purposes, my invention. consists inicertain novel features ol' consit-rueand-arrangement of parts, which will be ereina tfer more fully set forth, pointed out some, and illliStIfliii'l 211 the iliCOlll 7 panying drawings, in whiolu- Figure 1 is an elevation of a breeder of my improved construction, and showing the heating chamber in VQIi3C-fl-l section; Fig. 2

is an end view of the brood'er; Fig; 3 is a rear elevation of the breeder-with )arts in section in order to 'more clearly il ustrate thesame; 4 is an enlarged hor zontal sectiontalrerr on the line -i-4 of Fig. 1; Fig.

5 atransver'se section taken on the line 51-85 ofF I Fig. [6' is a horizontalsection taken out 0 line 6 -6'of Fig. 5; Fig. 7' is a horizontal section taken on the line 7-7 of Fig. 5; Fig; 8 is an enlarged detail section illustrating the construction of the hover chambers, and the curtains or flaps in the front thereof; Fig. 9 is a detail view of one corner of one of the removable floors or artitions made use of in my improved rooder.

The body of my improved brooder is in the '1 form of a rectangular housing of any conlvenient size, and coin rises the bottom 1, end walls 2, one of which is preferably pro vided with a window 3, the rear wall 4, and front wall 5, which latter is in the form of a door, and being connected by hinges 6; and its lower end to a rail 7 located on the front edge of'the bottom 1. Located on top of the housing so formed is an inclined cover or roof 8, which is preferably provided with Windows 9; and the under side of this roof or cover; and the inner faces of the front and rear and end walls of the breeder. housing are lined with sections of Wire screen 10, which effectually prevents rodents and the like from gnawing through the Walls of the brooder and destroying the young poultry therein.

Located at one end of the housing is a heating chamber 11, in which is located a heater, preferably in the form of a lamp 12; i and arranged immediately overthe burner of which connect a heating coil 14, which exl toiidsovor th bottom 1 of the housing, and I being support )y the transversely disposed E note red barsl; and the o )posite end of this coil 14 extcndswertically t n'ough the end of the housing, and is connected. to an expansion tank 16 located on top of the housing 11 and loading from said tank to the end of the coil 1ft, opposii I to end connected to the coil 14-, is a pipe 1? This arrangcn'ient of pip ng l provides for a.

through he coil 15, thus thoroughly heating the int or of the brooder.

The body of the brooder may be divided into a number of compartments by providing transverse partitions, such as 18 and in the these artitions, and the same being located direct y on top of the center bar 15. Fixed l to theside-faces-of the lower end of thisparat-es of the end 5 titionj 1S, and. tothe insif wrallsfi, inuneili pairstrips 111 and rc1noval)l arranged on each'fiair of st P5 is arectungul:.rscction of i wire netting 20, which is covered with a seei tion 21 of flexible material, such as canvas, thus forming soft floors for thoyoung poultry occupying said brooder, and through which floors the heat from the water within thew-oil '14 readily radiates. Located in the hinged door 5, iuuumli-atcly in front of the chambers ulun'c 1hremov able lloors just doscril'n'd, are rectungul" 1 frames 22, 111 \'\'l11('ll are located sections oi said lamp is a tubular coil 13, uith one end of circulation of hot water present instance, I have shown but one of atoly above the coil 14, is a glass 23, 01' analogous transparent material. When the brooderis in use.'the heater 1.2 is

said frames 22 being hinged at their top 3 edges, and being provided with fastening devices 24 at their lower edges, in order to fasten said frames to the door 5.

Located on the side walls of the partition 18, and on the inner faces of the enr walls 2, short distance above the strips 19, are

strips 25 and removably positioned on each perches 40.

pair of strips is a rectangular frame 26, and r on each frame is fixed a section 27 of wire netting covered by a section 28 of canvas, or

analogous material. These sections 26 and 27 form floors for the hover chambers of the brooder; and formed through said floors are suitable openings '29, and leading from the floors comprising the sections 20 and 21, up through saidopenings 29 are inclined walks 30, which provide means for the passage of the young poultry from the lowermost floors up into the hover chambers.

Located on top of the floors of the hover chamber, and around theedges thereof, are vertically disposed partitions 31 and secured to the tops and front edges thereof are sec tions 32 of'flexible material, which are slitted vertically,as designated by 33, immediately in front of said sections 32, in order to form flaps or curtains 3% in front of the comp'artments between the partitions 3-1. These small compartments are of such size as to readily accommodate two or three chicks, or the like, and by reason of said small compartments, crowding and consequent suffocation of the chicksis avoided in the hover compartments.

' If desired, additional hovercompartments, 35,-may be formed on the floor composed of the sections 26 and 27, and which compartments are provided at their fronts with flaps or curtains 36.

Removably positioned on strips 37 which are fixed to the inner faces of the end walls of the brooder housing, immediately above the strips 25, are floors 38 composed of sections of wire nettin and overlaid by sections of canvas, or thelike and formed in'the centers of each of these floors 38 are openings 39 (see Fig. 7), through which the chicks or the like pass from the hover compartments into the perching chambers above the fioors 3S; and 111 which perching compartments are arranged a series of horizontally disposed Formed in the bottom 1, at suitable dis tances apart, are apertures 41, which are 1 normally closed by s ding plates 12 said apertures being for the urpose of permitting air to enter, the broo er for the purpose of ventilation; and formed in the rear wall 4 of the breeder, adjacent the top thereof, is a series of openings 43, which are normally closed by a sliding late 44 and which openings permit the out at of air from the interior of the broader. I

lighted, and the heat of the flame thereof passes upward through the coil 1.3, heating the water therein, and causing a circulation of said heated water through said coil and through the coil 14 in the bottom ol the brooder. ihe chicks, or other young poultry from the incubator, are placed in the compartment immediately above the heating coil and provided with the floor composed of the sections 20 and 21 and this compartment forms arange and feed ground for the young chicks and the like. The interior of this compartment is lighted by means of the window 3, in one of the end walls of the brooder,

and by m ans of the hinged windmts ar-. ranged in the. hinged door 5. At night, the young chicks andthe like readily find their way up the inclined walk 30, into the hover compartments, and in turn pass into the smaller compartments between the partitions 31, in front ofwv'hich are arranged the flaps or curtains 34. As the chicks and the like grow older and gain in strength, they will pass upward through the openings 39, and into the perching chamber, and will roost. on the perches 40 therein The slides 42and are nnmipulated to open or close thodraft openings 41 and 43, thus regulatiiig the ventilation of air through the brooderjs d, when desired, the door 5 can be swung downward in order to renfiovo tl'iehorizontal partitions which form the floors of the vari ous compartments.

If desired,a thermostaticdamper regulator may be arranged in the top of the breeder, as shown in Fig. 1, thus providing automatic means for controlling the ventilation through thebrooder. l

A brooder of my improved construction is simple, inexpensive, is very compact,' provides means for accommodating a large number of young chicks, or the like, prevents crowding in the hover compartment, and the partitions forming the floors of the various compartments may be readily removed in order to be cleaned, or renewed.

I claim:

1. In a poultry brooder, a housing, a series of removable floors arranged therein to form a feeding compartment in the lower portion of the housing, a hover compartment immediately above the feeding compartn1ent,'a11d a,perch chamber above the hover compartm ent,,ther ebeing openings formed in the floors below the perch chamber and hover compartmentin order to establish communication bctween the various compartments and chambers, a series of partitions arranged 011 the floor of the hover compartment to di vide the same into a series of smallcompartments, a flexible curtain arranged in front of each of thesmall compartments, and a series of perches arranged in the perch chamber.

2. Ina poultry brooder, a housing, a series of removable floors arranged therein to form a feeding compartment in the lower portion of the housing, a hover compartment immediately above the feeding compartment, and

a perch chamber above the hover eompartment, there being openings formed in the floors below the perchchamber and hover compartment in order to establish communication between the Various compartments and chambers, a series of partitions arranged on the floor of the hover compartment to divide the same into a series of small compartments, a flexible curtain arranged infront of each of the small compartments, and a hot water heating coil located in the lower portlon oi the houslng beneath the floor of the feeding compartment.

3. In a pmiltry brooder, a housing, a series of removable floors arranged therein to form a feedingjcompar-tment in the lower portion of the housing, a hover compartment immediately above the feeding. compartment and a perch chamber above the hover compartment, which floors each comprise a section of 'retlculated material and a fabric section arranged on said section of reticulated material.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

' HENRY N. HEILMAN.

\fitnesses: 7

f M. P. SMITH,

'E. I 1. WALLAcE. 

